Four United States senators want the National Science Foundation to stop encouraging television meteorologists to report evidence of climate change.
Four Republican senators called Wednesday for an investigation of National Science Foundation grants, saying the federal agency had ventured beyond science and into political advocacy, particularly with its support of a program to encourage TV weathercasters to report on global warming.
The four senators called for the foundation’s inspector general to investigate the $4 million program to increase climate reporting by meteorologists, saying it “is not science — it is propagandizing.”
Why should the federal government not share research that is directly relevant to the lives of the Americans who pay for that research? Oh, never mind — I get it! Cruz, Inhofe and Lankford are whores representing big oil and gas states, and Rand Paul is just crazy.
Bah.